Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Harry S. Truman I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Jan Carlzon I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.
    Jan Carlzon
    Swedish businessman (1941 - )
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  • Booker T. Washington I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
    Source: Up From Slavery (1901)
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Emily Dickinson I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true - men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Ann Beattie I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Brooke Burke I like feet. I definitely have a fetish. I love to see a man's bare foot, but its got to be taken care of. If they're not well manicured, you've got to wonder what the rest of him is like. I don't want to get in bed with somebody and feel his gnarly feet.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
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  • Adele I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.
    Adele
    English singer-songwriter (1988 - )
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  • George Eliot I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Charlotte Brontë I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Bruce Robinson I like situational comedy when people are being completely serious and yet you can find something extremely funny, not jokes.
    Bruce Robinson
    English actor, director and novelist (1946 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ernest Hemingway I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Augusten Burroughs I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Moliere I live on good soup, not on fine words.
    Moliere
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Martin Luther King I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Samuel Johnson I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Guillaume Apollinaire I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.
    Guillaume Apollinaire
    Italian-born French poet, critic (1880 - 1918)
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  • John Updike I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Frederick the Great I love opposition that has convictions.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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